Catharine Pendrel returns to the top of the world

The Olympic mountain biker won gold in the elite women’s field at the 2014 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships on Saturday in Hafjell, Norway.

With her triumph in 2011, it’s the second time that Pendrel can claim to be world champion. The 33-year old 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist biked the course in 1:31:30 and won by 21 seconds over Russia’s Irina Kalentieva despite suffering a flat tire on the final lap. The bronze medal went to Lea Davidson of the United States.